I should have known I'd find your Harley bashing self on this thread sooner or later. It's ok that trolling along at low RPM's eludes you. It doesn't elude me, I love it. I've ridding for hundreds upon hundreds of miles at a time like that.
I don't get wheelies, stoppies, or weaving in and of traffic at warp 6. That's ok too. We're not all supposed to be the same. This constantly cutting at any taste different than your own is juvenile.
Hey, whatever turns your crank is fine with me. I'm perfectly happy to accept that not everyone looks for the same thing in a bike, but I don't often feel like I get the same respect back from many (most?) Harley owners.
But again, I could ask, is there something *inherently* (ie not a matter of taste) great about making power at low rpms? Certainly its a good model for making power in high duty-cycle engines like those in semi tractors, locomotives, ships or stationary generating plants. But for bikes its not at clear that there is any inherent advantage in it. In fact, the large displacements necessary for that type of engine performance results in large, heavy engines, and heavy is not a good thing in motorcycles, in my opinion.
As I've said, I would consider an H-D with this type of engine for a touring rig, but I don't think it is well suited to more sporting purposes. Buell's bikes show this - despite all the high-tech trickery used to get around it, you just can't build a competetive sport bike around a big, heavy, air-cooled Sportster lump. Buell needs to get a hold of the V-Rod engine if they must use an HD engine - that's a pretty good engine, in my opinion, and I'd be happy to have one, albeit in a different sort of bike than the V-Rod. The Street Rod looks pretty nice, though.